About the work

A pair of plastic white domed cylinders with ridged bases sit on top of a rectangular white foam block. Larger tubes with a deep peach finish sit behind, filling the scene against a gloss black background and further left tube.

These are protrusions into space, in isolation and togetherness. Varying depths of perspective, dimension and light create a space filled with transparency and matter. There's a stillness or a tightness of a moment, a heightened material or pressure entropy set against time. A topology of disconnected shapes. The white foam extension juts out into infinity like the birth or death of something.

Date and country of birth

1980, GB

About the artist

Emily Power lives and works in London. Graduated from BA Fine Art, Middlesex University (2003).

Power makes work using found and collected materials, often adopting a basic set of mathematical rules to work with, resulting in scaled up sculptures of manufactured objects to create a sense of a fabricated silent world. There are habitually repetitive elements within the works’ structure and surface features. She is experimenting with ways to offset sculptural objects against one another and is also reincorporating text into certain new works.

Selected installations include Power’s largest scale artwork to date, a wallpaper installation entitled You, continuing, William Morris Gallery, London (2005). Selected group exhibitions include Modern Finance, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London (2019).